Nepal has banned solo expeditions on Mount Everest and other peaks over 8000m. Stricter guidelines now require one mountain ...

China has taken strong exception to a film made by a Kurseong-born director and a cast and crew largely drawn from Darjeeling ...

The Chinese authorities, as part of their suppression of Tibetans’ basic rights, have taken aim at privately run educational ...

Scientists have for the first time in 185 years confirmed the presence of the Asian small-clawed otter in Nepal, thrilling ...

Over a year after a GLOF ravaged parts of Sikkim and washed away the Teesta-III hydel project, a proposal to build a new ...

A raft of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump in his early days in office has put several programmes across ...

Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...

I was born in Kham, in eastern Tibet, my parents’ first born. A brother and sister followed, and the five of us lived with ...

China's People’s Liberation Army has extended electricity to border outposts near India, in a bid to make the troops more ...

Here in Part II, we break down what it takes to do Nepal's 1,750km Great Himalayan Trail, both guided and unguided.

A 21-member delegation of officers and trainees from Nepal’s Armed Police Force (APF) has commenced an 11-day study tour to ...